Foreword
In recent years, improving the country’s education system has ranked at the top of the public’s list of priorities. One solution conservatives have long supported is providing State money to pay for children’s private-school education, allowing them to opt out of the public school system. A constitutional controversy emerges, however, when State money is used to pay for education at religious — or sectarian — schools. Over the past 30 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as allowing certain types of direct and indirect government aid to religious…
